International

LUCKNOW: India’s powerful Nehru-Gandhi dynasty on Monday unleashed its newest star with thousands turning out to see Priyanka Gandhi Vadra speak at her first rally as the country gears up for a general election. Crowds showered rose petals on the great-granddaughter of India’s founding leader Jawaharlal Nehru as she took an open bus tour through Lucknow, capital of the key …

KARACHI: Rashid Suhrawardy, the only son of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, former prime minister of Pakistan, the last prime minister of Undivided Bengal, and founder of the Awami League, died of natural causes in London on Feb 5. He was 78. Educated in the UK at Charterhouse School and Oxford University, Mr Suhrawardy attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in …

Refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi made a triumphant return to Australia on Tuesday, ending a two month ordeal that saw him jailed in Thailand and threatened with forced return to his native Bahrain. A throng of well wishers decked in #SAVEHAKEEM T-shirts cheered and sang the football anthem “You’ll Never Walk Alone” as they greeted the 25-year-old defender at Melbourne Airport, after …

SANA demands justice for the cold-blooded murder of Irshad Ranjhani By: Amir Makhani Austin, TX, 10 February 2019 – The Executive Council (EC) of the largest diaspora organization of Sindhis in the world, Sindhi Association of North America (SANA), in a meeting today, demanded speedy justice for the gruesome and cold-blooded murder of Irshad Ranjhani in Shah Lateef Police Station …

SWADDLING A NEW BORN MYTHS & REALITIES Dr. Faisal Khan M.B.B.S, SMLE, MPH, MCPS, MRCPCH-UK (Scholar) Al-Dar Hospital Madina Munawara, Saudi Arabia. In many cultures around the world newborn babies are swaddled to help them settle and fall asleep. Parents are in need to be warned about the risks and after effects of wrapping their little ones too tight. Although the …

Lawyers for French carmaker Renault have criticised their Japanese alliance partner Nissan for its handling of an internal probe into the Carlos Ghosn scandal, a Sunday newspaper has reported. In a letter to Nissan dated January 19, the lawyers said they had “serious concerns about the methods used” by the company and its legal team, including the way they treated …

South Korea and the United States struck a new deal on Sunday on how much Seoul should pay for the US military presence on its soil, officials said, after previous rounds of failed negotiations caused worries about their decades-long alliance. Last year, South Korea provided about $830 million, roughly 40 per cent of the cost of the deployment of 28,500 …

PARIS: A “yellow vest” demonstrator lost his hand on Saturday during clashes outside the main parliament building in Paris , witnesses said, during a 13th weekend of anti-government protests across France. Despite a drop in numbers from the massive turnouts of the first demonstrations in November, thousands still turned out in cities across the country to protest against French President …

The Trump administration’s new rules for a US visa program widely used for technology workers are getting cautious praise from Silicon Valley amid surging demand for high-skill employees. The H-1B visa program, which admits some 85,000 foreign nationals each year, will give higher priority to people with post-graduate degrees from US universities, under a final rule published in January by …

An Afghan lawmaker says airstrikes in the southern Helmand province have killed 21 civilians, including women and children. Mohammad Hashim Alkozai, a senator from Helmand, on Sunday said that 13 civilians were killed in one strike and eight in another. Both airstrikes were carried out late on Friday in the Sangin district, where heavy fighting is underway between Nato-backed Afghan …